50,000 voter hotline calls and trouble in Ohio

The voter assistance organization Election Protection’s toll-free hotline has already received well over 50,000 calls about potential voting problems today. The organization has set up the phone hotline for voters to report polling problems they’ve experienced and to check on things like wait times at polling locations.

EP notes that there seems to be disproportionate problems in the battleground state of Ohio, with the Cleveland and Columbus areas being two hotspots.

Voters in Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) and Franklin County (Columbus) are reporting that:

• after voting from same address for years, they suddenly have disappeared from the list at polls
• they received a voter registration card/notice of registration and precinct, as recently as this fall — yet are not on the poll registry
• they are on the statewide database (DB) but not on the poll registry

Ohio has seen other problems, too. Intimidation reports are popping up across the usual partisan regions - inner cities for Obama and rural and conservative swaths for McCain. Several counties are also reporting large numbers of names missing from voter rolls.

The election has been clean so far, but you can bet that the campaign lawyers are filing reports like these from across the country in case this gets tight. Small hiccups can have big consequences in battlegrounds.

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